**Publication Alert!** "Local News Reporting and Mass Attitudes on Infrastructure Investment," from me & @mullinmeg.bsky.socialdoi.org/10.1007/s111... Thread:

First up: local news is in market failure. While many studies look at newspaper closures, we focus on issues of declining newsroom staff. Skeleton newsrooms struggle to cover local issues at all, and cannot conduct info-rich reporting like investigative work or connecting to broader contexts.

thanks for alt texting it!